Top Rated Drama Movies on Hoopla - Page 194

Beauty in Trouble

2006

Beauty in Trouble

2006
6.5
Marcela can't bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed, because he is part of a gang steeling cars and they get caught in the act. Benes, the urbane man whose car got stolen by Jarda and his gang, befriends Marcela. Soon she feels drawn to Benes and all of a sudden she must make up her mind: Jarda is still sexually attractive to her, but Benes offers security, and her own body and mind may not pull at the same strand.
The Heart of Christmas

2011

The Heart of Christmas

2011
5.9
Told in flashback from the perspective of Megan, the storyline unfolds when her commitment to faith and family is renewed after reading the blog of Julie Locke, the online journal that Julie kept after her 13 months old Dax was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
Rabbit à la Berlin

2009

Rabbit à la Berlin

2009
6.4
The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years Death Zone was their safest home. Full of grass, no predators, guards protecting them from human disturbance. They were closed but happy. When their population grew up to thousands, guards started to remove them. But rabbits survived and stayed there. Unfortunately one day the wall fell down. Rabbits had to abandon comfortable system. They moved to West Berlin and have been living there in a few colonies since then. They are still learning how to live in the free world, same as we - the citizens of Eastern Europe.
The Women of Brewster Place

1989

The Women of Brewster Place

1989
6.9
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
The Zigzag Kid

2012

The Zigzag Kid

2012
6.7
Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity.
Miss Julie

1999

Miss Julie

1999
5.8
A footman seduces a count's daughter. Adaptation of August Strindberg's famous play.
Elegant Beast

1962

Elegant Beast

1962
7.1
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
A Christmas Snow

2010

A Christmas Snow

2010
5.3
For Kathleen, Christmas has always been an unwelcome reminder of her father’s abandonment almost 30 years ago. Although she has tried to forget her past, it has not forgotten her. In the days leading up to Christmas un unforgiving blizzard traps her in her own home with two unlikely roommates. Same, a gentle older man Kathleen took in for the night and Lucy, the daughter of her soon to be fiancé bring her face to face with the hurts of her past. Will she be able to let go and grab hold of a life-changing forgiveness or will she continue to be haunted by the pain of the past?
33 Postcards

2011

33 Postcards

2011
6
Dean Randall has sponsored a young Chinese orphan Mei Mei for many years, when she arrives in Sydney out of the blue to thank him, their lives are changed forever.
The Dead Mother

1993

The Dead Mother

1993
6.2
Ismael breaks into the house of a fine art restorer and shoots the homeowner dead, leaving her daughter orphaned and traumatized for life. Years later, Ismael is working in a bar where he sees the daughter again. Paranoid that she has recognised him and will report him, he kidnaps her and holds her hostage, demanding that her hospital pay a ransom for her release. As he spends more time with her, a strange bond develops that causes him to delay the ransom request or fulfil his threats of throwing her in front of a train. But he can’t delay forever…
Comforting Skin

2011

Comforting Skin

2011
4.2
A lonely young woman's desperate need for emotional and sexual companionship draws her into a surreal and ultimately destructive relationship with a shifting and whispering tattoo she has willed to life on her skin.
Crash Site

2011

Crash Site

2011
4.1
A vacationing couple's jeep crashes in an isolated location. They have to fight their way back to civilisation in spite of injuries and dangerous animals.
The Wild Ride

1960

The Wild Ride

1960
5
A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking.
The Kate Logan Affair

2010

The Kate Logan Affair

2010
5.2
A young psychologically unstable young police woman named Kate Logan and a married Frenchman find themselves caught up in a dramatic twisted affair.
Abhimaan

1973

Abhimaan

1973
7.1
A popular singer encourages his wife to sing, but tensions mount between the pair when his career begins to falter and her own musical career and popularity surpasses his own.
Winnie Mandela

2011

Winnie Mandela

2011
6.1
A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.
Second Chances

1998

Second Chances

1998
7.7
A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.
Southern District

2009

Southern District

2009
6.3
In La Paz -as opposed to many other cities- the rich live below, which is the Southern District. Life goes on without major mishaps in a large house surrounded by a beautiful garden. It is a wonderful world, a great bubble of comfort, where different personal spheres coexist: the mother, along with her three children and the Aymara inhabitants of the house. The drama surfaces slowly, without narrative ploys, observing day-to-day activities until internal and external forces make the bubble burst. The film relates the story of the final days of an upper-class family, at a time when the country is undergoing social changes.
Sunday School Musical

2008

Sunday School Musical

2008
4.2
Two competing groups of high school students must rally together and enter a song and dance competition in order to save their church from closing.
Follow the Stars Home

2001

Follow the Stars Home

2001
6.3
Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad brother pulls his disappearing act. Mark walks out on wife Dianne after learning that the baby they're expecting has severe genetic abnormalities. Dianne is nonetheless determined to bear her child, with support from her mother and Mark's brother David, a pediatrician whose love for Dianne is unspoken but obvious. How do they cope with the challenges of raising this little girl named Julia?